Richard Flanagan Quotes

Nationhood is not founded on religion but blood ties, a common culture and homeland.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

There is no 'European people' united by common mores.

There is no them in America.

Nationalism usually conquers in the name of a putative folk culture.

The motherland is the common mother, the unity within which isolated the individuals penetrate and become enmeshed. It is the holy name that expresses the voluntary fusion of all interests into one interest, of all lives into one lasting and perpetual life.

A nation is a body of people united by a corporate sentiment of peculiar intensity, intimacy and dignity, related to a definite home-country.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to it all their lives, hold decent and reasonable hopes for its continued integrity.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

We may disagree among ourselves, but let us never lose sight of that greater battle for one people, one country, one Philippines.

No one can undermine national unity.

Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.